John Steele (North Carolina)

John Steele (16 November 1764-14 August 1815) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-NC 4) from 1790 to 1791 (preceding Hugh Williamson) and from NC-1 from 1791 to 1793 (succeeding John Baptista Ashe and preceding Joseph McDowell).

Biography
John Steele was born in Salisbury, North Carolina in 1764, and he served in the House of Commons from 1787 to 1788, from 1794 to 1795, in 1806, and from 1811 to 1813 and in the US House of Representatives from 1790 to 1793. He opposed the federal government's assumption of state debts and the excise tax on whiskey during his tenure. He died in 1815.